An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller.
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems.
Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.
'A tender, horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction. A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' INDEPENDENT
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The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre and post-war generations, between the guilty and the innocent and between words and silence. --R Ellis, Amazon.com
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long, they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all that she seems.Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realise that the person on the dock is Hanna. The woman he has loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret. A German novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780753804704
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Der fünfzehnjährige Michael lernt Hanna, eine Frau von Mitte dreißig kennen. Sie wird seine erste Liebe. Trotz gewisser Spannungen - Hanna weigert sich, über ihre Vergangenheit zu sprechen, erleben beide eine Zeit des Glücks. Dann ist Hanna verschwunden. Jahre später sieht der Jurastudent Michael sie im Gerichtssaal wieder. Im Rahmen eines Seminars nimmt er als Beobachter an einem Kriegsverbrecherprozeß teil. Hanna wird eines schrecklichen Vergehens beschuldigt und verurteilt. Michael ist entsetzt, kann aber Hanna und das, was er mit ihr erlebte, nicht aus seinem Gedächtnis verbannen. 216 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780753804704